Upon the memorial of Benjamin Uncas[1], Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, in behalf of his tribe, lamenting the death of Samuel Lynde[2], Esq., late one of the overseers of said Indians aforesaid, praying this Assembly to appoint Captain Matthew Griswold[3] in the room of the said Samuel Lynde, deceased, and that they may have a colony law book to be lodged with their present schoolmaster, Mr.